Tell A Friend Scripts

By Vincent Newton (c) 2010

When you are operating a virtual business the biggest issue that you are likely to face is deciding on the best way to drive traffic to your website. Business owners and even professional web designers must face this problem on a daily basis. For the business owners it is about finding the right niche market and then enticing them to click on your link. For web designer it is about designing the site in such a way as to not only attract new business but keeping them coming back for me. While there are many methods available to accomplish this seemingly Herculean task, some are usually better than others at certain and very few work well with all niches, products or services.

One of the more popular marketing methods recently has been viral marketing. This technique relies on what amounts to word of mouth advertising. Putting your product or service on as many sites, blogs and directories as possible to increase your businesses visibility. Once a reader sees what you have to offer you can make it easy, and even profitable in some cases, to pass the word to their network of friends and other connections.

Like other online marketing, viral marketing has it´s variations. One such is called tell-a-friend script. This makes it very easy for your site visitor to pass on your information to their network. With viral marketing it has been necessary for someone desiring to pass the information on to actually copy and paste the link to your site on an email, message or posting on one of the social network sites. When you are using the tell-a-friend scripts visitors who want to pass the word can simply click a link, fill out a form with their friends email and name and shoot it to them immediately without worrying about losing the link or forgetting to send the message. Once the friend receives the message they can see who it is from, a friend, and they will be less likely to delete it as spam and can even pass it on immediately to other friends in their own network, thereby increasing your exposure exponentially. This technique prevents your message and links from ending up in the recycle bin or spam folder. Basically this is a much needed improvement on the viral marketing techniques that have grown in popularity over the last several years.

The process is amazingly easy also. Copy the script and paste it directly into the subject webpage. If you need to find it again, use your search engine and look for “tell a friend script”. You will get a lot of results for pages offering scripts and you can use them as required.

Like any marketing method however it will take some time for the momentum to build. Take the time each day to add to the number of scripts that you are using and the number of links you are building. Let the network grow and daily feed its potential by adding more and more possible roads to your business.